Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.

It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.

No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.

Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.

The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching.

Cheating, having 'hoes,' none of that is cute. To be honest, it's really immature. I don't see how people take pride in breaking someone's heart. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.